Everyone's been worried that all the work we've done would be for nothing. It's very important to let everyone know this has been very hard for our developers. So our reasons for re-opening are due, in short, to the lack of response from Valve. On March 10, around 6 months after their last reply, we decided to send a final email announcing that we plan on opening our downloads back up until they re-affirm that they want us to keep them down. Due to the lack of response, we've tried contacting them in multiple different ways, including through Steam support. Unfortunately, Valve has not responded to us in any form, despite us trying various ways to contact them after this initial email. We sent them a response confirming that we would suspend downloads, alongside stating that we were very much interested in a Steam release, along with a few questions. They asked us if we were interested in releasing our projects in the form of a mod on Steam, which would have required work from both parties. In the same email, Valve made it clear to us that they recognize and appreciate the creativity and motivation of the TF2 community, and were internally discussing the best way to let us express it. As such, they asked us to "stop distributing reverse engineered or leaked code, including anything compiled using that code or otherwise derived from it."
In short, their response stated that, while the Software Service Agreement allowed for modding to a certain extent, it both does not apply to the leaked code, and forbids the use of reverse-engineering. In particular, about their stance on reverse-engineering, as the Open Fortress team was working on a reverse-engineered TF2 base to use in place of the 2008 leaked source code that most TF2 mods at the moment use. In doing so, we'd also like to update everyone on what's been happening.Īs we've mentioned in the past, we had gotten in contact with Valve about a few questions regarding TF2 Sourcemods. We'd like to let everyone know that there's been no response back from Valve, and that we plan to re-open downloads to the public.
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